Month: January 2010

Alec Clark (Aberdeen) Alec Clark was born on 22nd July 1922 in Virginia Street, Aberdeen. The second eldest child, he came from a large family of thirteen children, although four of these died young. The […]

Charley Johnson This piece is by Charlie Johnson himself I was born in a little terraced house at 39, Elbow Street, Old Hill, Staffordshire, on 19th July 1924 the youngest of four. One died in infancy […]

Archie Robertson Archibald Harold Mann Robertson was born in 1886, the son of a bishop. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, gaining the distinction of winning a first in philosophy and passing into […]

Joan Dillon Browne Joan Dillon was born on 4th July 1912 in Stockport and attended the nearby Fylde Lodge school. Then came Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated in history and trained as a secondary […]

Emmy Boulton Emmeline Boulton was born in Openshaw, Manchester, to James, an engineer, and Emily, a weaver. Emmeline’s mother was to become a member of the Communist Party. No doubt this had an impact on […]

Jack Webb J F, or Jack, Webb was elected on at least three occasions the President of his local co-operative society in Bristol despite systematic attempts by the right-wing to remove and bar him from standing. He was […]

Max Levitas Like his brother Maurice Levitas (see separate entry), Max Levitas was the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Latvia who had fled the anti-Semitic pogroms of Tsarist Russia in 1912, thereby escaping […]

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THE EARLY DAYS 1. Introduction 2. 17th Century Democrats 3. The crowd in action 4. Lead Mining in Derbyshire 5. From Guild to Union 6. The Woolcombers 7. Framework Knitting 8. Cotton Mills 9. The [...]